The stage is set for open mic night every Wednesday at Crusty’s Pizza in McCall, Idaho. Last night I had the opportunity to slow my shutter and let my Olympus E-10 show me its stuff while professional and amateur musicians shredded the floor. A tripod wouldn’t help much here where feet tapping players keep the floor in constant motion. Given the slow shutter speed, my motion, and the bouncing floor, here’s what the E-10 put out.

Paper paper airplanes swarm across the ceiling in the South Side Grill. The restaurant and bar face the airport in McCall, Idaho. As two guitarists swarm the bar with electric blues, I imagine the planes coming to life and wreaking havok. I set my cameras on long shutter speeds and set the magic free. The musicians are Brian MacDonald and Spence Bates, playing blues on Fender Squires. They played for the dancing girls in my post “In the Momment”. https://skybluedaze.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/movement-blur/

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Thanks for stopping in! I hope I feature topics that inform or entertain you, or inspire you. Living in the Pacific Northwest, I write and make art about what is close to home and close to my heart, the people and places in Idaho's Rocky Mountains and Washington's North Olympic Peninsula. I traveled to Transylvania to learn more about creating dark fiction and you'll see some of my practice in this blog. I hope my writing and art surprises you and keeps you coming back. Happy trails! Kay

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There is not enough time, and I wind up just wanting to do things that I don’t have time for. There are so many things that I’d love to do, and I have to put off, or that it’s a matter of me choosing, when really I’d love to do both. And if only time were infinitley stretchy, I could.” Neil Gaiman